Ojukwu reveals new daughter
The will of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu, was on Friday presented to the family with his widow, Bianca,
getting the lion’s share.
The presentation by the Chief Registrar of the Enugu High Court,
Mr Dennis Ekoh, was witnessed by Bianca, Mr Val Nwosu, Ojukwu’s first cousin,
and Mr Mike Ejemba.
In the will, the late Ojukwu identified one
Tenny Haman as one of his children.
Ojukwu listed the
children as Tenny Haman, Chukwuemeka Jnr, Mmegha, Okigbo, Ebele, Chineme, Afam
and Nwachukwu.The Ikemba gave the
Casabianca Lodge at 7 Forest Crescent, GRA, Enugu, two property at Jabi and
Kuje in the FCT as well as all his money and personal effects to his widow.
He also said that
Bianca should replace him as the trustee in the family company, Ojukwu
Transport Ltd, while also giving her two plots of land in his village at Nnewi.
He, however, added that if she re-married, the land should be taken away from
her.
The first son, Emeka
Jnr., got the family house at Nnewi, while the newly mentioned daughter, Tenny
Haman, got the Jubilee Hotel located in Zaria, Kaduna State.
The Biafran warlord
also shared other landed property in the village among all his children.
Ojukwu listed the
trustees and executors of the will to include Bianca, Emeka Jnr and Mr James
Chukwuneme.
Reacting to the will, Bianca, who is Nigeria’s
Ambassador to Spain, expressed satisfaction with its contents.
“It was a fair will.
This time round, he did not disappoint us,’’ she said.
The ambassador,
however, expressed shock at the disclosure of a new daughter in the family,
whom she said had never been mentioned by her husband.
None of Ojukwu’s
children was present at the presentation of the will.
A man who claims to
be Ojukwu’s first son has already filed a legal action in a Lagos court on the
will.
Chief Debe Odumegwu
Ojukwu who claimed to be the eldest child of the late Ojukwu had slammed a N100
million suit on his father’s widow, Bianca and six others, accusing them of
preventing him from managing his estate.
In the suit filed
before a Federal High court in Lagos, Chief Debe alleged that the defendants
prevented him from performing the dust to dust rites during the burial of his
father and also prevented him from managing his estate.
Also joined in the
legal battle are Ojukwu Transport Limited, Professor Joseph O. Ojukwu, Engineer
Emmanuel N. Ojukwu, Mr. Lotanna Ojukwu, Emeka Ojukwu, Mr. Patrick Ojukwu, Mrs.
Margret Mogbo, Nee Ojukwu, the Inspector-General of Police and Mr. Ibrahim
Mukhtar, former Commissioner of Police Anambra State, now an Assistant
Inspector-General of Police.
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